Billy Bragg Quotes
I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.
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I think I'm attracted to outlaws because they make me feel safe inside, like a little child.
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I'm from Michigan and a down-home girl.
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Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so.
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We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunities in India.
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I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
